In his youth Zadock suffered from scrofula and sore eyes which
kept him from acquiring a formal education. He did learn to read
as an adult. Zadock drove the stagecoach between the towns of
Brunswick and Berea, Ohio.

Zadock and Emily were divorced in 1891. In that same year,
Zadock married Sarah M. Potter Silk on June 11, 1891. Sarah
was the daughter of Henry Potter of Rocky River, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
She had one son, John Henry Silk (1879-1928), by her previous marriage
to John Silk. Zadock and Sarah had two children:

Arthur Lorenzo Tillotson was born January 31, 1892 and died
of pneumonia on September 14, 1910.
Emma Morton Tillotson wrote the
following brief obituary for Arthur.

Arthur Tillotson died suddenly of pneumonia September 14, 1910
aged 18 years. It is sad indeed when one is cut down in the
bright morning of life. Many hearts are left sad and lonely
by his passing away.

An unnamed son was born October 8, 1893 (or October 9) and
died two or three days later on October 11.

Zadock's first wife Emily Maria Metcalf died November 8, 1898 in
Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio.
Her obituary appeared in The Oberlin News for
November 11, 1898.

The deceased was the daughter of Joseph W. and Mary Metcalf
and was born in Liverpool, Medina county, O., Feb. 9, 1842. She
married Zadok (sic) Tillotson of Brunswick, O., June 12, 1860
and moved to Oberlin in March, 1885. She was one of
eight children of her parents, four of whom survive her, Henry
Metcalf of Pittsfield, Mrs. Eliza Brown of Oberlin, Mrs. Mary
Terrell of Cleveland, and Charles A. Metcalf of Elyria.
Hon. Geo. P. Metcalf, who died some years ago, was a member of
the family. She leaves one son, A. Z. Tillotson, Esq., of
Oberlin, at whose home she passed through a long and painful
illness. Mrs. Tillotson early united with the M. E. church
but since coming to Oberlin she united with the First Baptist
church, and remained in it until her death.

Funeral services were held at the house on Wednesday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. I. E. Bill, Jr., pastor of the Baptist church.
The members of the W.C.T.U., of which she was a member, attended
the funeral in a body.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Tillotson desire to extend thanks to the
W.C.T.U., the Ladies's Aid Society, the Knights of Pythias,
and individuals for floral offerings.

Testimonials from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of
Oberlin:

Whereas, God in his providence has removed from us by death
one of our esteemed members, Mrs. Emily M. Tillotson, we,
the members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, do
hereby express our sense of loss in one who was greatly
interested in our work, and ready to do her part in carrying
it on as she had opportunity. Mrs. Tillotson was for a long
time one of the vice presidents and a member of the executive
committee of the Union. We shall not soon forget her
interested and cheerful face as she met with us, or took part
in our work. We tender our sympathies to her son and his
family, and to all of the relatives in their loss of a
loving and faithful mother and friend. The Lord reward
the dear daughter-in-law, who so lovingly cared for her during
her long and painful illness. But while we mourn the loss
to our Union, to her friends, and to the church, yet we
rejoice with them and with her that in God's own time she
was released from her long trial and suffering, which she
felt was His method of fitting her for an entrance into that
glorious home which Jesus had in waiting for her. May her
cheerful, earnest and conscientious endeavor in what she
thought to be duty, and above all her unfaltering trust
for salvation in the atonement of Jesus, encourage and
beckon us on till the "evening time," -- which will come to
each one -- may bring to us as to her -- "light."

Mrs. R. B. Holton.
Mrs. J. A. Hart.
Com. W. C. T. U.

Zadock Tillotson Jr. died May 4, 1912 in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio.
He had suffered a paralytic stroke shortly before his death.
Zadock's second wife Sarah M. Potter Silk Tillotson died March 28, 1917.
She is buried in Westview Cemetery in Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio.
Her son John Henry Silk is buried next to her. Mrs. E. C. Miner
wrote the following obituary for Sarah.

Sarah M. Potter was born, April 16, 1852 at Columbia, O., and
died Mar. 28, 1917. When a little past 20, she married John Silk,
who passed out of life in 1881. To this union was born one son,
Henry, who has made a home for his mother of late years. Some ten
years after her husband's death, she married Zadock Tillotson, to which
union was born two sons, one dying in infancy and Arthur, who died
Sept. 30, 1910, aged 19 years. Mr. Tillotson died in June, 1913.
Mrs. Tillotson had been a resident of this community since 1890,
and had been a great sufferer for a number of years from cancer.
She was very patient in all her sickness. She also leaves one sister,
Mrs. Delilah Beckley of Lakewood, who was with her, for the last
few weeks. She was a member of the M. E. church and at the funeral,
on Friday, Rev. Gay preached and Charles Damon and Mrs. Ila Waite
sang two selections. She was laid in our cemetery beside her two sons.